We’ve seen a lot of commentary about whether we should have considered a corporate email address to be private information. There are many individuals who may use their work email address for a variety of personal reasons — and they may not. Our Trust and Safety team does not have insight into the use of every user’s email address, and we need a policy that we can implement across all of our users in every instance.
That said, we want to apologize for the part of this story that we did mess up. The team working closely with NBC around our Olympics partnership did proactively identify a Tweet that was in violation of the Twitter Rules and encouraged them to file a support ticket with our Trust and Safety team to report the violation, as has now been reported publicly. Our Trust and Safety team did not know that part of the story and acted on the report as they would any other.
As I stated earlier, we do not proactively report or remove content on behalf of other users no matter who they are. This behavior is not acceptable and undermines the trust our users have in us. We should not and cannot be in the business of proactively monitoring and flagging content, no matter who the user is — whether a business partner, celebrity or friend. As of earlier today, the account has been unsuspended, and we will actively work to ensure this does not happen again.
Posted by Alex McGillivray, General Counsel - @amac
Still waiting on the Spike Lee George Zimmerman facilitation of violence Tweet to be addressed.
Or did I miss that one?
You might try tweeting that question to Alex Macgillivray, General Counsel – @amac (taken from that blog post.) I’d be interested.
I got suspended for objecting to a couple freaks promising to lynch George Zimmerman. They made a coordinated effort to declare me a spammer. Neither of those accounts had any adverse action against them although they were comprised solely… solely of profanity, threats and racist insults. After some weeks of back and forth I was also “unsuspended” but I have not returned in any serious fashion. twitter is a farce. It was conceived and executed with the presumption that it would become an implement of Leftwing politics including violent anarchic revolution. That it has instead become a pie cannon for that very same element has infuriated the lunatics that pollute the venue on the Left. Truly, our opposite numbers are little more than gabbling morons on their best day.
This story seems to be missing something. What are they explaining? What is the backstory? What corporate email address?